This study investigates whether firms in China use corporate social responsibility (CSR) to
build political networks and, if so, how such CSR decisions affect firm performance. We …

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the
analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using …

It is increasingly common for analysts to seek out the opinions of individuals and
organizations using attitudinal scales such as degree of satisfaction or importance attached …

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Tourism, being volatile and situation-specific, is responsive to climate change. A cross-
section analysis is conducted on destinations of OECD tourists and a factor and regression …

Tourists from different European regions have reacted heterogeneously during the Global
Economic Crisis. Such variability is due to different preferences and willingness to pay for …

The paper explores how demographic changes in human populations may impact on
tourism decision-making of households over their life cycle. By means of hurdle models, the …

The forecast of tourism volume in the form of arrivals is of special importance for tourism and
other hospitality industries because it is an indicator of future demand, thereby providing …

This paper examines whether open market share repurchases deter takeovers. We model
pre‐repurchase takeover probability as a latent variable and examine its impact on the firm's …

Numerous papers in finance study the conditional mean of some proportion or fraction with a
mass point at zero. We argue that most, if not all, of these studies use mis-specified statistical …